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G. WQ FORTIER.

CURTAIN FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED Nov.5. 1920.

Patented Dec. 28, i920,

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CURTAIN-FASTEN ER.

Application filedA November 5, 1920.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE l/V. Fon'rmn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in .Curtain-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to curtain fasteners, z'. e., means whereby curtains may be releasably held in drawn or closed post tion; and its object is to provide such a device having spring-pressed curtain-holding arms, turnable on a fixed mounting to a position wherein the curtain may be released, and to other positions whereby the drawn curtain may be held by the arms, both being turned to a position at one side of their mounting, or to a second position wherein they are both turned to the opposite side of their mounting; or to a third position in which the arms are turned to extend in opposite directions.

This and any other objects hereinafter appearing are attained by, and theinvention vfinds preferable embodiment in, the d evice hereinafter particularly described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a view in perspective of my curtain-fastening device, and a fragment of a curtain, the arms of the device being turned in opposite directions;

Fig. 2 is a view of the same, but showing said arms turned to another curtain-holding position;

Fig. 3 is a view of the device showing the arms in curtain-releasing position, and illustra-ting the body member of the device in central longitudinal section;

Fig. et is a like view, but showing the arms the position seen in Fig. 1; and

Fig. 5 is a face view of the device, the arms being in the releasing position seen in Fig. 3.

In the embodiment of the invention chosen for illustration by the drawingsand for detailed description in the body of this specification, my curtain fastener is shown secured in a fixed position, as to the side of an automobile body l, as by screws 2 extending through the laterally-extending` base 3 of the body member 4: of the device. This body member has a recess 5 extending longitudinally thereof, in which recess a slidable plunger 6 is lspring-pressed outwardly by a spring 7 seated in the recess Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 28, 1920. Serial No. 421,819.

behind the plunger. A pair of arms 8, 9, are pivotally mounted co-axially at 10 on ears 11 of the body member, and have flat portions 12, 13, 14 adjacent their pivotal mounting, against which portions the plunger G abuttingly contacts under the springs pressure. These arms may be turned on their pivotal mounting to various mutually side-to-side positions., viz.: to the position seen in Figs. 3 and 5, wherein the orifice 15 in the free edge of the curtain 16 may be passed over said arms to engage or release the curtain; to another position, seen in Fig. 2 in which `both arms are turned, side to side, to the left hand side of the body member et, in which position they retain the curtain in drawn position. This positioning of the arms may be desirably adopted where they are oritice adjacent its lower left-hand corner, as seen in Fig. 2; the arms may be also turned together to another like position, wherein they extend in a direction opposite to that shown in Fig. 2, particularly where they are passed through an oritlce at the lower right-.hand corner of the curtain. The arms may be also (and usually are) turned to opposite positions, as seen in Figs. 1 and et after being passed through the curtains orifice. One arm 8 is desirably longer than the other arm 9 (as shown) to facilitate the ready separation of the arms when in their position seen in Figs. 3 and 5.

he recess may extend tl'irough the body member 4, thus providing it with an open bottom which may be (if desired) closed by a plug 17. By this construction, the plunger Gand spring 7 may be inserted into the recess 5 without removing the pivot pin 10, and the inner end of the spring 7 will then abut against said plug, or against the part 1 on which the device is mounted in case the plug be omitted.

The invention being -intended to be pointed out in the claims, is not to be limited to or by details of construction of the particular embodiment thereof illustrated by the drawings or hereinbefore described.

I claim:

1. In a device of the character described; a body member provided with means for securing it in a fixed position and having a recess extending longitudinally thereof; a pair of arms pivotally mounted coaxially on the body member and turnable thereon to opposite1y-extending positions and to three passed through the curtains een mutually-side-to-side positions, viz., one position in Which the arms are parallel With the longitudinal direction of the body member, a second position in Which the arms are transverse to said direction and extend beyond one side of the body member, and a third position in which the arms are transverse to said direction` and; extend beyond the opposite side of the body member,

each arm having adjacent its pivotal mount- I ing three flat portions adapted to yieldingly retain the arms in their said respective positions by the pressure exerted on said portions respectively by the hereinafter-mentioned spring; a spring in said recess exerting pressure on said flat portions respectively..

2. In a device of the character described; a body member having a laterally-extending base pierced for receiving means for securing the device in a fixed position and having a recess extending longitudinally: thereof; a pair of arms pivotally mounted coaxially on the body member and turnable thereonto oppositely-extending positions and to three mutually-side-to-side positions, viz., one position in Which the arms are substantially parallel With the longitudinal direction of the body member, a second position in which the arms are transverse to said direction and extend beyond one side of the body member, and a third position in which the arms are transverse to said direction and extend beyond the opposite side of the body member, each arm having adjacent its pivotal mounting three flat portions adapted to yieldingly retain the arms in their said respective positions by the pressure exerted on said portions respectively by the hereinafter-mentioned spring; a spring in said recess exerting pressure on said flat portions respectively.

3. In a device of the character described; a body member provided with mea-ns for securing it in a fixed position and having a recess extending longitudinally thereof; a pair of arms of different lengths pivotally substantially y mounted coaxially on the body member and turnable thereon to oppositely extending positions and to three mutually-side-to-side positions, viz., one position in which the arms are substantially parallel with the longitudinal direction of the body member, a second position in which the arms are transverse to said direction and extend beyond one side of' the body member, and a third position in which the arms are transverse to said direction and extend beyond the opposite side of the body member, each arm having adjacent its pivotal mountingV three fiat portions adapted to yieldingly retain the arms in their said respective positions by the pressure exerted on said portions respectively by the hereinafter-mentioned spring; a spring in said recess exerting pressure on said` flat portions respectively.

4. In a device of the character described; a body member provided With means for securing it in a fixed position and having a recess extending therethrough in said members longitudinal direction; a pair of arms pivotally mounted coaxial'ly on the body member and turnable thereon to oppositelyextending positions and to three mutuallyside-to-side positions, viz., one position in which the arms are substantially parallel With the longitudinal direction of the body member, a second position in which the arms are transverse tov said direction and extend beyond`one side of the body member, and a third position in which the arms are transverse to said direction and extend beyond the opposite side of the body member, each arm having adjacent its pivotal mounting three fiat portions adapted to yieldingly retain the arms in their said respective positions by the pressure exerted on said portions respectively by the hereinafter-mentioned spring; a spring in said recess exerting pressure on said flat portions respectively.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand at Grand Rapids, Michigan, this 3rd day of November, 1920.

GEORGE W. FORTIER. 

